I got one of those ‘is it most people or just me’ questions.
If you’re eating something you don’t really like, is it fairly easy to push through it, or does it make you feel like you’re going to puke if you keep trying to eat? I kind of assumed this was a normal person thing, but people treat eating food you don’t like as a normal thing, especially in the context of ‘getting used to it’ or ‘learning to like it.’
So, normal or not?
Depends on how much I don’t like it? Some foods just make me gag on sight, or I can’t handle their smell or texture. Some just aren’t tasty, and I can eat them but without enjoyment, and it gets more difficult with every mouthtful.
I was a picky eater as a child (I was known as the ‘bread and cheese’ kid cuz I wouldn’t eat anything else) and still am, and my parents always gave me that ‘learn to like it’ spiel. Never understood that. Why should I learn to like something I don’t like?
Probably so I can eat it without making other people feel bad. But also perhaps because my parents both remember a time when you couldn’t just pick what you liked, you got what was available and made do. No fully stocked supermarkets, no multitude of restaurants to choose from. That was my childhood, too, which doesn’t explain how I turned out to be so picky? but hey.
I dunno, I wondered too if it’s just people accepting this social norm of eating everything because you’re an adult, or if most folks just have an easier time with it physically. It’s cool to discover new tastes but why force yourself?
I’ve always been picky myself. The biggest problem now and the reason I hear ‘try it till you like it’ most is because I don’t like healthy food. I don’t know what it is. Maybe something about growing up on cheap food due to my parents being poor when I was young. Just about any vegetable is gross and anything fancy is generally gross to me too.
There are foods that I find bland and can handle, but if I find it gross—doesn’t matter if it’s because of the taste or the texture—continuing to eat it makes me feel like vomiting.
But one of my sisters today made a comment about having to like something because someone else she really likes liked it, and it just boggled my mind. I can’t just decide to like something. I’ve tried. It just doesn’t work. I’ll just feel like I’m going to vomit. Luckily it hasn’t Actually ever made me vomit, but that doesn’t make the feeling less pleasant. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Glad to know others feel it too though. Haha
If you have trouble eating “healthy food” it might be because your digestive system is having a panic reaction to too much too fast.
This especially applies to high fiber foods (like veggies). Fiber can cause a lot of digestive problems if your body isn’t used to it. It has to be introduced very gradually to avoid gas/bloating etc. The digestive system really, really doesn’t like abrupt change.
Different foods require different enzymes and intestinal microflora to digest. The amount of certain enzymes your body produces, and ratio of types of gut bacteria inhabiting your colon, depends a lot on the kind of food you regularly consume.
I’m the opposite. I’m lucky that my dad was a doctor with a nice salary, so we could afford nice food. My parents’ cooking was always very nutritionally dense and also very culturally diverse because they’re from the Caribbean and a lot of the traditional Caribbean dishes combine ingredients and preparation techniques from multiple cultures (Persian, Chinese, Latin, British).
We lived right in the middle of California’s farming community. We had a bunch of different fruit trees growing in our yard, some that were planted deliberately, and some that were the result of natural seed dispersal from birds visiting nearby commercial fruit orchards and then shitting seeds into our yard.
I grew up eating lots of weird health food shit and my body’s used to variety.
I get bored *very easily* when it comes to food. When I cook for myself, my meals tend to look like an hors d’oeuvres platter.
It’s honestly a problem – I have credit card debt is because I spend too much money on food.
This wouldn’t terribly surprise me. The health food and digestive weirdness. I’ve been noticing more and more as I’ve been trying to eat better, that the seemingly healthier the meal is, the more likely I’m just going to feel hungry again in about an hour. When my sister first had me doing the Shakeology shakes to get some vegetable nutrition and what not, I was dealing with some stomach aches and stuff. Now it goes down well.
But yeah, even though it’s unhealthy, it’s nice to be able to easily make/get a meal at a lower cost. There’s something pretty messed up about access to healthy food / cost. I know there’s a lot going on with all that, but it is pretty problematic how difficult it can be to consistently access healthy food. (｡☉︵ ಠ)
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